HUD Homes: How they Can Promote Home Ownership and Reduce House Abandonment

For many, the American Dream still means owning a home. The home ownership rate in the U.S. fell in the fourth quarter of 2007 to its lowest level since the beginning of 2002--this from a record high in the middle of 2004. What is more alarming, however, is that the home owner vacancy rate went up 2.8 percent. The bulk of the vacant homes are foreclosed homes. Among such foreclosed homes are Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) homes that have come into HUD’s possession as a result of Federal Housing Administration (FHA) loan defaults

Long Way Home the Life History of Chinese-Indonesian Migrants in the Netherlands

The purpose of this paper is to trace the modern history of Indonesia through the experience of two Chinese Indonesians who migrated to the Netherlands at different periods of time. These life stories represent both post-colonial experiences and the Cold War politics in Indonesia. The migration of Chinese Indonesians since the beginning of the twentieth century has had long history, however, most of the previous literature has focused on the experiences of the “Peranakan” group who are not representative of various other groups of Chinese Indonesian migrants who have had different experiences in making their journey to the Netherlands. This paper will present two stories as a parallel to the more commonly known narratives of the “Peranakan” experience

Grassmannian Integrals as Matrix Models for Non-Compact Yangian Invariants

In the past years, there have been tremendous advances in the field of planar N=4 super Yang-Mills scattering amplitudes. At tree-level they were formulated as Grassmannian integrals and were shown to be invariant under the Yangian of the superconformal algebra psu(2,2|4). Recently, Yangian invariant deformations of these integrals were introduced as a step towards regulated loop-amplitudes. However, in most cases it is still unclear how to evaluate these deformed integrals. In this work, we propose that changing variables to oscillator representations of psu(2,2|4) turns the deformed Grassmannian integrals into certain matrix models. We exemplify our proposal by formulating Yangian invariants with oscillator representations of the non-compact algebra u(p,q) as Grassmannian integrals. These generalize the Brezin-Gross-Witten and Leutwyler-Smilga matrix models. This approach might make elaborate matrix model technology available for the evaluation of Grassmannian integrals. Our invariants also include a matrix model formulation of the u(p,q) R-matrix, which generates non-compact integrable spin chains.Comment: 15 pages; v2: published version, minor changes including additional reference